Motorcycle History

There are some superbikes—well, somewhat super—that have been overlooked. Let’s call them the mighty mini-multis. For example, about 209 years after Moto-Guzzi dazzled the GP racing circuit with its V-8, and after its merger with the De Tomaso Group, it produced one of the most interesting mighty mini-multis ever built for the consumer market. It was known simply as the 254.

Harley-Davidson Racing History Harley-Davidson sets new Transcontinental Record, cleans up at TT races, Hillclimbs and gets ISDT Gold You may have checked out Nic de Sena’s...

Honda Gold Wing History As 2015 came to a close and many riders packed away their bikes for the winter, we were reminded that that...

Top 10 Strangest—and Most Ground-Breaking—Production Motorcycles Here in the 21st century, we have become accustomed to the general concepts of contemporary motorcycle design. The seating...

Pete’s Vintage Motorcycle Corner - Cold War Motorcycle Classics The period following the end of World War II saw allies become enemies afterward. Popularly known...

ISDE History and Vintage Photographs Just ahead of the 90th edition of the International Six Days Enduro (ISDE) set for Kosice, Slovakia, September 7-12, the...

Honda Grand Prix Wins Reach 700! Back in 1954, Soichiro Honda - Honda’s founder - made a bold move. Under the aim to “realize the...

The 1950s are considered the Golden Age of motorcycle racing, and one man has a huge role in this - Britain’s Geoff Duke. From his...

With racers always making the headlines, we sometimes forget about the people off the track - the engineers, technicians, mechanics and test riders. These are...

Arguably the most iconic film in motorcycling, “On Any Sunday” helped promote the way of BRAAAP to thousands of youngsters and adults. The film, produced...

Perhaps the most famous motorcycle photo ever taken is the one of Rollie Free setting a motorcycle land-speed record aboard a Vincent Black Lightning...

Honda V4 and VF Series Motorcycle History Honda was not the first motorcycle manufacturer to build bikes with V4 powerplants. Ducati experimented with a V4,...

Henderson Four History The notion that the 1969 Honda CB750 — or any other four-cylinder bike from that era, for that matter — was the...

Then Came Bronson - A Look Back If you are a rider of a certain age, you may remember “Then Came Bronson,” a TV series...

Honda Gold Wing Having caught most of the world off guard with the introduction of its CB750 in 1969, Honda introduced another ground-breaking road bike...